Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia

Folger bibliographic ID: 146487
ESTC number: R22824
Wing number: O163
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 192288

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folio

General notes

Title page in red and black Half-title reads: English atlas, tome the first Signatures: [A]² b² c⁴ chi⁸ 2chi1 B-3T⁶ Portions also available as a digital reproduction

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution (catalog entry 63)

Extended title: Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia : and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages. Their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure; with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their vvonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; Master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland
Alternate titles: English atlas, tome the first

Islands of the Indian Ocean Islands of the Atlantic Africa

author: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676